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against all odds by serenesummer
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians (TV 2023), Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
31 Jan 2026
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The whole thing bothers her, especially because it makes her wonder what would have happened if Luke and Thalia had been the last tributes left. What then? Maybe one of them would have sacrificed themselves for the other—maybe they’d split up and let nature (or whatever grotesque mockery of it was created for the arena) take its course. Either way, Annabeth can’t possibly conceive that they’d ever really try to hurt each other.
That being said, she knows it’s not really the same with her and Percy. Up until now, he’s been an acquaintance, a friend of a friend, a person only in her periphery. And now, she shouldn’t even think of him as that, because at the end of the day, he’s just another person whose death must happen if she wants to come home alive. She doesn't want Percy to die, and she certainly doesn’t want to be the one to kill him, if it really comes down to it—but she doesn’t want to die in that arena, either.
Annabeth is always prepared for the prospect of getting reaped for the Hunger Games. She's not really prepared for whatever might happen after.
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They pretend that there was ever any contention about her staying when Ethan directs her to the second bedroom of the cabin. She acts like she’s going to just leave after traveling some long, unspecified distance to get here, and he acts like he’s going to let her go without protest, but the bag eventually moves from the side table to the little single-seat sofa in the corner of the second bedroom anyway.
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Ilsa finds Ethan after Kashmir.
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It's not Ilsa's first time in Venice, not really.
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The first time Ilsa meets Ethan Hunt, he is unconscious. She knows everything about him—she knows nothing. She knows of Captain Hunt, NASA’s best test pilot, top of his engineering class. She knows him by the younger face she’s seen in old files, his statistics, his records. She doesn’t know the man slumped in the cold metal chair in the ground level of the NASA base, with soft brown hair that tickles the nape of his neck and rough hands. She’s only ever seen his two-dimensional form in uniforms and flight suits, not the living and breathing man in a faded sweatshirt and dusty cargo pants and a thick corduroy jacket.
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Ilsa digs her gun out of the bottom drawer of a dresser in a room she hardly ever enters one night, disassembles it and lays it all out on her kitchen countertop. That first night, it takes her a minute and twenty-seven seconds to reassemble it. Over the next two days, she gets the time down to forty seconds. More time passes—twenty-three seconds. More time—fifteen.
She starts to wonder if she can make other things out of the parts; tools, decorations, practical, simple objects that have nothing to do with the original item. But as Ilsa gets more and more familiar with the individual parts, she realizes that there isn’t really anything she can rebuild them into other than a gun.
Maybe it serves as some analogy for her life. Discarded, taken apart. She reassembles the gun in eleven seconds and realizes a gun is all it was ever meant to be.
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He’ll get over it eventually. He comes close, in between one moment and the next, or he at least convinces himself he does. But then he looks back in his notes about the Forum and spots a pair of Chanel flats on someone’s feet in the streets and he’s right back where he started, thinking it might take him longer to get over it than it ever did to build the city he’s currently in.
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Where one story ends, maybe another one begins.
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Ethan finds her, eventually.
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- Part 3 of the oath
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Ilsa has a guest after the world almost ends.
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- Part 2 of the oath
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As Ethan starts to die, he starts to think about her.
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- Part 1 of the oath
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Ethan accidentally gets drugged on the mission.
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you will find moonlit nights strangely empty by serenesummer
Fandoms: Mission: Impossible (Movies), Titanic (1997)
26 Jan 2025
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A man meets a spy on an unsinkable ship thinking she's an aristocrat trapped in a stifling engagement. A woman meets a spy on an unsinkable ship thinking he's a poor traveller drifting aimlessly all over the world. And neither of them know that they're hoping to walk away from the ship with the same necklace.
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As Ethan drowns, he thinks of many things. It ranges from some garbled imitation of this water is so fucking cold to a long buried memory of his mother to his hastily improvised wedding in a hospital. He thinks of watching Titanic with Julia and blinking away tears during the end credits before she can see them. He thinks of holding Benji and Luther, the familiar smells of both of them.
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As much as his nightmares plague him, he considers closing his eyes and going back to sleep now because they’re the only way he can see her properly, even if it is usually her lying on the ground with a knife stuck in her. He can visualize her when he’s awake but after everything, he can’t quite properly recreate her mannerisms or the exact cadence of her voice. She’s still achingly familiar to him, yet long-bottled grief has slowly eroded his idea of her. The nightmares, the ones where she dies, the ones where she kills him, the ones where he is never able to save her, that’s all he has left of her.
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Years after Venice, after everything ends with the Entity, the team untangles Ethan's secrets.
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Why does she find him in Rome? Why does she follow him to Venice? Eurydice was in the Underworld and that is where Orpheus found her—
it’s me, it’s me—
and he left her there, left Eurydice in the Arabian Desert and did not look back. That is why she emerges from the land of the dead and into one of the oldest cities in the world, because he didn’t look back.Series
- Part 2 of orpheus and eurydice
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He left her in the desert and he didn’t look back. He didn’t want her to come back—maybe that’s why she came back anyway. She came up behind him and she called out to him—
come, let’s go to the rooftop.
Eurydice calls. Orpheus turns around—Orpheus agrees to watch the sun set over Venice with her.Series
- Part 1 of orpheus and eurydice
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Before the Ducale, before everything had gone wrong, Ethan and Ilsa had made a plan, kept a secret; a secret he no longer seems to be able to remember.
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A collection of all the details Ethan Hunt remembers about Ilsa Faust.
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(set during and between rogue nation, fallout, and dead reckoning) -
the lieutenant by serenesummer
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians (TV 2023)
22 Sep 2024
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When it comes down to it, Thalia joins Luke. And in the aftermath of Zoё Nightshade's death, Annabeth Chase joins the Hunters of Artemis.